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Supreme Court Restricts Race-based Affirmative Action in Higher Education
In a historic blow to affirmative action, the Supreme court ruled that UNC and Harvard University’s race-consious admissions policies are unconstitutional.
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Anti-Affirmative Action Group Hopes Conservative Supreme Court Will Finally Give Them a Win
Students For Fair Admissions—the crusaders for white opportunity in a country built on the American dream of opportunity exclusively for white people—is continuing its fight against affirmative action in college admissions with hopes that the Supreme Court is finally conservative and Trump-supporter-y enough to hand them a victory after a string of court losses. From…
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U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Lawsuit Against Harvard’s Affirmative Action Policy
A U.S. appeals court has rejected a case challenging Harvard’s affirmative action policy. According to CNN, the case was brought forth by a group of Asian American students who felt the university’s policy disproportionately benefited Black and Hispanic students. Judge Sandra Lynch wrote the ruling for the appellate panel and found the university’s “limited use…
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Justice Department Threatens to Sue Harvard Over Race-Based Admissions Practices
The Trump administration is squaring up for its first major legal challenge over affirmative action, as documents obtained by CNN indicate. The news network, which shared copies of the documents on its site, confirms that the Department of Justice is actively investigating Harvard’s use of race in its admissions decisions. The letters, which come from…